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Astronomers identify likely location of medium-sized black holes
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Astronomers identify likely location of medium-sized black holes

Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense, star clusters …

Apr 21, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Hubble sheds light on origins of supermassive black holes
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Hubble sheds light on origins of supermassive black holes

Astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a crucial "missing link" between young star-forming galaxies and …

Apr 14, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Hunting for gravitational waves from monster black holes
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Hunting for gravitational waves from monster black holes

Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in …

Apr 8, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Astrophysical plasma study benefits from new soft X-ray transition energies benchmark
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Astrophysical plasma study benefits from new soft X-ray transition energies benchmark

The analysis of astrophysical plasmas is vital in the quest to learn about some of the Universe's most powerful and mysterious objects and events …

Apr 6, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Quantum information theory: Quantum complexity grows linearly for an exponentially long time
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Quantum information theory: Quantum complexity grows linearly for an exponentially long time

Physicists know about the huge chasm between quantum physics and the theory of gravity. However, in recent decades, theoretical physics has provided some plausible …

Mar 29, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Gravitational wave mirror experiments can evolve into quantum entities
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Gravitational wave mirror experiments can evolve into quantum entities

Scientists review research on gravitational wave detectors as a historical example of quantum technologies and examine the fundamental research on the connection between quantum …

Mar 16, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Scientists announce discovery of supermassive binary black holes
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Scientists announce discovery of supermassive binary black holes

Researchers have discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems.

Mar 12, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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NASA's NICER telescope sees hot spots merge on a magnetar
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NASA's NICER telescope sees hot spots merge on a magnetar

For the first time, NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has observed the merging of multimillion-degree X-ray spots on the surface of a …

Mar 9, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Event horizons are tunable factories of quantum entanglement
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Event horizons are tunable factories of quantum entanglement

Physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques to reveal a mechanism for amplifying, or 'stimulating,' the production of entanglement in the Hawking effect in …

Mar 5, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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'Closest black hole' system found to contain no black hole
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'Closest black hole' system found to contain no black hole

In 2020, astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just 1000 light-years away in the HR 6819 system. But the results of …

Mar 2, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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Death spiral: A black hole spins on its side
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Death spiral: A black hole spins on its side

Researchers found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than 40 degrees relative to the …

Feb 26, 2022 Mayur Tembhare
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